Cancer Cure: Raw Foods?

I have a tendency to believe that the cure for cancer has been around us since the beginning of time: plants.

This isn't to say that a cure can't be developed inside a researcher's laboratory. In fact, previous content of mine suggests that the laboratory cure will be a drug that inhibits an enzyme in cancer cells called telomerase.

What about a raw foods diet? Can this cure or stop the progression of cancer? And if it doesn't, why is it so heavily promoted as such? Promoters encourage eating raw foods, not purchasing some expensive pill that they have manufactured. Though some promoters have written books about raw fooding, and obviously want to make a profit, keep in mind that many promoters have not written so much as a pamphlet. Unless they own a grocery store or farmer's market, they have no financial incentive to lie. Do enough surfing on the net, and you will come upon accounts of people who rejected chemotherapy and surgery, and switched to raw fooding; their cancer disappeared.

One promoter says that there is no profit in a cure for cancer. When you think about this for a few moments, you'll realize just how true it is. Big Pharma rakes in billions a year from cancer patients. The cancer treatment industry is bigger than Jupiter. Why haven't we found a cure after all this time?

Why do so many people get cancer? One in three women, and one in two men, will get it. This disease can't possibly be part of nature's orderliness. So where does it come from?

Mainly, it comes from modern-day food fare. Everyone gets cancer cells in their bodies, and usually, our immune systems take care of these errant cells without a hitch. But when the immune system is inefficient, the cells continue dividing until a tumor develops.

Why does the immune system fail in these cases? One offer is that our immune systems are too busy dealing with the toxins that get into our bodies from what we eat. This leaves insufficient reserves for the immune system to battle cancer cells. Did you know that sugar is cancer's only fuel source? Look how much sugar Americans regularly gulp down. I'm talking added, white sugar, not the natural carbohydrates found in fruits.

Some people claim to have cured their cancer by switching from a conventional diet to a raw foods diet. Cooking kills enzymes; it kills the life in food. Raw food is alive and thus, contains all the cancer-killing compounds at their best. In order for raw fooding to eradicate a serious disease, it must be carried out 100 percent. This means go completely raw (excluding raw animal products); absolutely no cooked foods.

The human body evolved on raw foods, until early man discovered how to make a fire. Also, contrary to common belief, primitive man subsisted largely on plant foods, not meat. Do you realize how difficult it was for ancient man to slay a 500-pound bison with only stone spears? Man foraged for food, picking berries, nuts, and eating other plant life.

Raw food advocates claim that the following are the most anti-cancer foods: berries, cruciferous vegetables, carrots, beets, and any fruit that is a deep, dark purple. Eat them whole or juice them. Also eat nuts and seeds. Living on a diet like this sounds impossible, until one is diagnosed with cancer. Then it becomes easy.

Mesothelioma is cancer of the lining of the lungs, caused by asbestos exposure. Once a person is diagnosed, he is usually given 6-9 months to live. There is no effective treatment. Mesothelioma is considered to be a terminal illness. However, one man claims to have been diagnosed 10 years ago; he attributes his survival to a macrobiotic diet - which I purport is largely raw. He's written a book and is promoting it. I hardly think that he's lying, because whether or not he was diagnosed with mesothelioma can easily be verified. So I'm going to assume he really is the world's longest mesothelioma survivor, as he claims.

A raw food diet will never hurt a person. But if you go this route, take vitamin B12 supplements, because B12 is found basically only in animal foods. Do an Internet search on raw foods. Or better yet, do a search on cancer cure. Just about everyone who writes about cancer cures, suggests the raw food way of life. The raw foods listed above contain compounds that inhibit tumor growth in laboratory studies. Raw fooding will relieve the immune system of having to work overtime to rid the toxins from conventional eating habits. Our immune systems were meant to be able to stop cancer before it starts.